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Need help to burn dmg to usb for making Mac bootable USB drive
My wife's MacBook Air was stuck on system update after reboot and can't get into the desktop. Unfortunately, this is the only Apple device at our home. I need to make a bootable USB on my Windows 11 ...
7-Zip can extract DMG files, but it doesn’t handle creating a bootable USB drive from them. This means you can get the contents out of the DMG, but making that USB drive bootable requires more steps and may not work seamlessly. So, you might end up with a USB that has files but isn’t actually bootable on a Mac.
Is there a way to create a bootable USB drive using something other than tran/smac? I don't want to spend the $60 for this as I'm only going to use it once (and I waited too long, so the 15-day free trial ended....oops). I know Rufus doesn't work for this.<br><br>The Mac I'm trying to fix won't recognize the disk, so therefore I cannot reinstall the OS from the Mac itself. Any ideas?